[…] suffrage comes from Beverly Beeton, who in her essay, “Women Suffrage in Territorial Utah,” identifies the debates over female suffrage as political debates that turned on whether the female vote would advance or hinder […]
[…] I think there is something mentally wrong—for several times he has been pressing down on me to buy some sexual books he has and to talk that stuff to every couple I marry. Which […]
[…] is noteworthy because, instead of laying out the original historical meaning of Isaiah, it reapplies the text to the time of Joseph Smith and to the course of Jewish and Christian history up to […]
Dialogue 32.1 (Spring 1999): 119–135 Norman discusses instances where the racist teachings that justified the priesthood restrictions before 1978 continue to be taught.
[…] have shifted over time. In Jan Shipps’s memorable phrase, the Mormon has gone from “satyr to saint.”[ 6] As Mormon lifestyles approached the mainstream, Mormons have gone from facing fierce derision, to grudging tolerance, […]
[…] the girl selling the most would then be crowned Queen. For weeks, friends swirled around Kören to buy and help sell. Her brothers called her “Highness.” But at the carnival that winter, in an […]
[…] I was no older than fourteen—I received a special gift from my grandparents. They knew I liked to read. In fact, they knew that I read a lot. I was a regular patron of […]
[…] In another story from Turning Hearts, “Birthday Gift,” a father rejects the puppy his children and wife buy him for his birthday because of un resolved guilt and grief about Suzy, a family dog […]
[…] Josh. 8:31-34 identifies the “book of the torah” as the “torah of Moses” (see also Josh. 23: 6; 1 Kgs. 2:3; 2 Kgs. 14:6, 23:25). “Torah of Moses” most likely refers to the book […]
[…] changed as much as has age at marriage so that an increasing proportion of children are born to single parents. At the same time, marriages have become much less stable so that adults are spending […]